Culturing Conceptions: From First Principles

Autor/inn/en	Roth, Wolff-Michael; Lee, Yew Jin; Hwang, SungWon
Titel	Culturing Conceptions: From First Principles
Quelle	In: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3 (2008) 2, S.231-261 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1871-1502
DOI	10.1007/s11422-008-9092-2
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Structures; Concept Formation; Scientific Concepts; Cultural Influences; Interviews; Science Education; Science Instruction; Science Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	Over the past three decades, science educators have accumulated a vast amount of information on conceptions--variously defined as beliefs, ontologies, cognitive structures, mental models, or frameworks--that generally (at least initially) have been derived from interviews about certain topics. During the same time period, cultural studies has emerged as a field in which everyday social practices are interrogated with the objective to understand culture in all its complexity. Science educators have however yet to ask themselves what it would mean to consider the possession of conceptions as well as conceptual change from the perspective of cultural studies. The purpose of this article is thus to articulate in and through the analysis of an interview about natural phenomenon the first principles of such a cultural approach to scientific conceptions. Our bottom-up approach in fact leads us to develop the kind of analyses and theories that have become widespread in cultural studies. This promises to generate less presupposing and more parsimonious explanations of this core issue within science education than if conceptions are supposed to be structures inhabiting the human mind. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10